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SGUTTLE DOOR.

\No. 598,975. Patented Feb. 15, 1898.

I ENTUH UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL BURGER, on NEW YORK, N.1Y.

SCUTTLE-DOOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 598,975, dated February15, 1898. I

Application filed March 9, 1897- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL BURGER, acitizen of the United fitates,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scuttle-Doors, ofwhich the following is a full and complete specification, such as willenable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same. This invention relates to scuttle-doors for cellars; and theobject thereof is to provide an improved door for scuttle-holes andimproved means for opening and closing the same.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawings form a part, in which-- Figure 1 is asectionalview of my improvement, showing the door in differentpositions;

and Fig. 2, a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings forming part of this specification the separate parts ofmy improvement are designated by the same numerals of reference in eachof the views, and in said drawings I have shown at 5 a plate or coversuch as is usually employed in cellar-doors or openings in pavements andfor similar purposes, and said plate is provided with an opening 6,which is provided with an upwardly-directed rim or flange-7, and hingedat one side of the said rim or flange 7 is a door 8, which is providedwith a depending rim or flange 9, which is adapted to overlap andinclose the rim or flange 70f the'plate 5, and secured to the bottom ofsaid door opposite the hinge thereof and'adjacent to the rim or flange 9is a curved spring-arm 10, which passes through a keeper 11,- secured tosaid rim or flange 7, and secured to said rim or flange and projectinginto said keeper is a pin 12, which is adapted to pass through holes 13,formed in said spring-arm. I also secure to the bottom of the plate 5,preferably beneath the hinge of the door 8, a pulley 14, and acorresponding pulley 15 is secured-to the side wall of the opening 6adjacent to one side of the keeper 11, and secured to the bottom of thespring-arm 10, as shown at 16 in Fig. 2, are two ropes or cords 17,oneof which is passed over the pulley 15 and the other over the pulley14, and the operation will be read- Sarial No. 626,575. (No model.)

ily understood from the foregoingdescription when taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings and the following statement thereof.

The door 8 maybe held in the raised position, as shown in Fig. 1, bymeans of the spring-arm 10 and the pin 12,which is adapted to passthrough one of the openings 13, formed in said springarm, or said doormay be locked in the closed position by the same device, and in raisingand lowering the door it is only necessary to pull on the ropes or cords17, a pull on the rope or cord which passes over the pulley 14 servingto disconnect the springarm from the pin 12, while a pull on both cordsor ropes after this'disconnection has been made will raise the door 8into the position shown in Fig. 1. I

It will thus be seen that I accomplish the object of my invention bymeans of devices which-are simple in construction and operation andperfectly adapted to accomplish the result for which they are intended,and it will be apparent that changes in and modifications of theconstruction herein described may be made without departingfrom thespirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages. It will also beapparent that this device may be used in connection with doors orcoverings for skylights and for various other and similar purposes; and,

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent The herein-described scuttle-door comprising a door 8,hinged at one side thereof to a suitable support, a spring-arm 10,secured to the under surface of said door adjacent to the side oppositeto the hinged connection of the same, akeeper 11 mounted on the innerwall of the opening which the said door is adapted to close, a pin 12mounted in the wall of said opening and within said keeper, saidspringarm being provided with a plurality of openings 13 with which saidpin is adapted-to successively engage, a pulley 14 mounted on saidsupport beneath said door, a cord mounted on said pulley and secured atone end to'the said spring-arm 10, whereby the same may be disengagedfrom the said pin 12, a second I00 pulley 15 mounted on the inner Wallof said my inventionIhave signed my name, in presopening adjacent tosaid keeper 11, and a enee of the subscribing witnesses, this 8th cordmounted on the same and also secured day of March, 1897. to the lowerend of said spring-arm and EMIL BURGER.

5 adapted to raise or lower the said door, sub- Witnesses:

stantially as and for the purpose described. 0. GERST,

I11 testimony that I claim the foregoing as S. L. HAWKSHURST.

